AUTHOR’S NOTE: Yeah….I know… I’m late. Fucking Clusterfuck taken up all my free time, I’m tellin ya. Whelp, back to Crowds. Last time on Crowds…nothing happened (sur-prise, sur-priiiiiiiiise). This time on Crowds… Something happened!…but not much. Introducing our new villain, Rizumu Suzuki, a medical student who also received the CROWDS note from presumably Berg-Katze (don’t rule out Gelsadra just yet) but didn’t use it fearing its awesome potential if abused. But then Rui proceeded to do so for the benefit…

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Been a while hasn’t it? When last I watched the unspeakable abomination that is Gatchaman Crowds, the show gave me one of the most mindbogglingly inept finales ever, rife with plot holes, characters shunted to the sides, and a final battle that was… not a final battle… at all. At that time, I prayed to the anime gods that such a disaster should never be repeated and I would never have to do Crowds-Sourcing ever again. …Since then, Tatsunoko has…

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Last June, Gatchaman Crowds rolled onto our screens with a potentially interesting if… somewhat bizarre concept and execution. By September it had rolled off my screen leaving me so bloody angry and frustrated with one of the most choppy, inept finales since Flowers of Evil. In between there were several ups and downs. Some episodes were pretty good, others were utter shite. So for this final (and I mean final) edition of Crowds-Sourcing, I’ll be looking at what the show…

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Well folks, this is it. The final episode of Gatchaman Crowds and the penultimate edition of Crowds-Sourcing. Its being a bumpy three months for me and this show but its my hope that Crowds ends on a high note… Alas. With the new, additional Crowds only managing to cause a minor raucus and not doing anything productive, it looks like Katze’s finally won… until he gets called out by his old nemesis O.D. Yes we finally get to see O.D…

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Well here we are with the penultimate episode of Gatchaman Crowds. Boy am I excited after last week! Hope it gets off to a great start with…. nothing. No cold opening this week huh? Maybe they don’t want to break up the action this week? Or maybe they want to show off the changes they made to the op (which are far more significant than usual)? Well anyway… lets get this show on the road with… narration over footage from…

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So yeah since the last edition of Crowds-Sourcing, my computer’s hard drive died a slow painful death so I’m without the ability to provide you with my usual 1080 screenshots of this week’s episode at the moment. I should have it fixed by next week, in which case I may update this week’s installment (EDIT… and done!). In fact I’m actually quite surprised to be writing this right now since I announced earlier that Crowds-Sourcing X would be delayed and…

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Welcome back to the first post-license edition of Crowds-Sourcing, where Sentai Filmworks decides that they can still spend some money on that gun they shot themselves in the foot over Flowers of Evil with! Last time… Rui got fucked over by Katze and Gatchaman wasted all their time at a kindergarten! What goofy misadventures will our team of neon striped Super Sentamen Raidas get into this week?! Gatchaman (more precisely Hajime) takes in and heals Rui at their dorm. The…

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Wow… last week’s episode was pretty good! Can this week keep up the momentum?!? (spoilers: nope) We begin with everybody but OD in the dumps. Paiman’s reduced to binge drinking, Jou (who has recovered from his masive injuries from last week) hates himself more than normal, and Utsutsu has a sunny disposition (wait what?). Naturally Dr. Hajime has a perscription for this crippling predicament… do a public relations reveal at a nearby preschool! …god I hate this show. So anyway…

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Oh boy! Gatchaman Crowds time again! How low can we go this week?!? THIRTY MINUTES LATER… Who is the man who made this episode and what have you done with my usual hipster hack Kenji Nakamura?!?!!? Following his rather lame attempt at getting Gatchaman to drop the whole Gatchaman thing, Rui decides its time to fight fire with fire and eliminate his “benefactor”/torturer Katze using the CROWDS. That goes about as well as the Hindenberg disaster as Berg Katze annihilates…

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